Puckett, Richard H.
2005-May-19 16:48 UTC
[syslinux] Memdisk ramdisk hangs using menu.c32, but ok from cmdline.
I'm trying to use syslinux 3.08-pre11 on a Gateway E4000 with the (sample) config file below, and the ramdisk images fail to boot if selected as a menu option, but do boot if I press ESC and type the command line manually. The two options are for the same floppy image, but the first is compressed, the second uncompressed. When the compressed image is selected from the menu, memdisk displays warnings with an incorrect image size and fractional sectors, then fails to boot. The uncompressed image simply fails to boot. When either command line is entered manually, the ramdisk boots correctly. So far, I've only experienced the problem on the E4000, but don't know why it would just be this system... Any insights would be helpful. - Rick DEFAULT menu.c32 MENU TITLE Boot CD ALLOWOPTIONS 1 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 100 LABEL Floppy0 MENU LABEL Floppy Boot Image 0 MENU DEFAULT KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=floppy.gz floppy c=80 h=4 s=36 LABEL Floppy1 MENU LABEL Floppy Boot Image 1 KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=floppy.img floppy c=80 h=4 s=36
Puckett, Richard H.
2005-May-19 18:29 UTC
[syslinux] Memdisk ramdisk hangs using menu.c32, but ok from cmdline.
<..trying again after changing outgoing e-mail options to avoid bad headers...> I'm trying to use syslinux 3.08-pre11 on a Gateway E4000 with the (sample) config file below, and the ramdisk images fail to boot if selected as a menu option, but do boot if I press ESC and type the command line manually. The two options are for the same floppy image, but the first is compressed, the second uncompressed. When the compressed image is selected from the menu, memdisk displays warnings with an incorrect image size and fractional sectors, then fails to boot. The uncompressed image simply fails to boot. When either command line is entered manually, the ramdisk boots correctly. So far, I've only experienced the problem on the E4000, but don't know why it would just be this system... Any insights would be helpful. - Rick DEFAULT menu.c32 MENU TITLE Boot CD ALLOWOPTIONS 1 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 100 LABEL Floppy0 MENU LABEL Floppy Boot Image 0 MENU DEFAULT KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=floppy.gz floppy c=80 h=4 s=36 LABEL Floppy1 MENU LABEL Floppy Boot Image 1 KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=floppy.img floppy c=80 h=4 s=36